SLIDE VERSION: SALESIAN YOUTH
SPIRITUALITY
Julian Fox
SUVA: 21st April -- "you've read the book,
seen the film, and now...."! And now you can check out the slide
version. Do you recall that little monograph put out by the Youth Ministry
Departments SDB and FMA in 1996? It stood out in my mind because it was
written in superb English ( a 'first' for Rome) and was also written in a way
that was immediately usable. Now, in their preface, Luc and Georgina
invited us to find 'the best criteria for communicating and understanding its
contents in the light of your day to day living'.
1. It is indeed a 'translation' of the
material, though I have worked word for word from the text where possible.
But the context may be helpful to others too. I had to present this
material to the Fiji National Catholic Youth Council who had never heard of the
Salesians until I met them. Vaguely knew of Don Bosco, but not really who
he was and had never heard of Mary Mazzarello. So you will not find the
term 'Salesian Youth Spirituality' anywhere in the material! Nor will you
find DB nor MM.
2. My powerpoint slides were large - in
the web version they are small. Sorry about that - I may perfect the
technique and succeed in making them larger there too. I'll keep
trying. In the meantime you have these options:
a) Just look and see how it
might be done. If you have Powerpoint you could easily put the same show
together yourself.
b) Right click and download
one or more slides as GIF or JPG files, then enlarge them yourself.
c) Look at the text version
(available on index page) to get a clear idea of the slide wording (to help you
with option (a) also)
3. The web version has no gimmicky
animation effects - to be truthful I haven't learnt how to transfer those to the
web - it can be done. I will have to learn how, I guess.
If anyone were interested, I can email them (as
an attachment) the full text of the talk which 'fills out' the slides.
While it draws substantially from the booklet first referred to, it adds other
material too and hopefully does what the authors wanted us to do.
And finally - there's always the 'delete' button
or the 'bacj' button if it all takes too long and too much money to
download!
